Abstract

The poetry workshops that Ernesto Cardenal ran in the community of Solentiname, Nicaragua during the Sandinist Revolution (1979) and even before at the end of the 60s, did not completely disappear with the abolition of the Ministry of Culture in Nicaragua, of which Cardenal was in charge. Nor did it disappear with the later defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in the elections of 1990. Nonetheless, it did end as a global project, though the seeds of the workshops continued, and not just in Nicaragua. Cardenal himself noted in an interview. What is interesting is that when these workshops ended, they began to influence in the United States in a great number of workshops for children and young people of different languages and ethnicities. Read more

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